Digital Song Sales


The Digital Song Sales ranks the most downloaded songs in the United States, as compiled by Luminate and published by Billboard magazine. Although it originally started tracking song sales the week of October 30, 2004, it officially debuted in the issue dated January 22, 2005, and merged all versions of a song sold from digital music distributors. Its data was incorporated in the Hot 100 three weeks later. Since October 2004, digital sales have been incorporated into many of Billboards music singles charts. The decision was based on the dramatic increase of the digital market while commercial single sales in a physical format were becoming negligible.
The first number one song on the Digital Song Sales chart was "Just Lose It" by Eminem. The chart's current number one as of the issue dated July 26, 2025 is
"Ordinary" by Alex Warren.
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Song records

Songs with most weeks at number one in sales

  • 18 weeks
  • 17 weeks
  • 16 weeks
  • 15 weeks
  • 13 weeks
  • 11 weeks
  • '''10 weeks'''

Biggest jump to number one

Longest climb to number one

  • 33 weeks
  • 26 weeks
  • 25 weeks
  • 24 weeks
  • 23 weeks
  • 22 weeks
  • 20 weeks
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Biggest drop from number one

Song achievements

  • "Party in the U.S.A." by Miley Cyrus and "Gangnam Style" by Psy hold the record of most weeks at number one on Digital Song Sales without topping the overall Billboard Hot 100, with six weeks each.
  • "I Gotta Feeling" by The Black Eyed Peas holds the record for the biggest-selling digital download in the U.S., with sales of over 8 million copies by 2012. The song was the first to surpass 6–8 million downloads.
  • "Low" by Flo Rida featuring T-Pain was the first song to surpass 4–5 million downloads. It was also named the Top Digital Song of the 2000s decade.
  • Soulja Boy's "Crank That (Soulja Boy)" was the first song to surpass 3 million downloads.
  • Daniel Powter's "Bad Day" was the first song to surpass 2 million downloads.
  • "Hollaback Girl" by Gwen Stefani was the first song in history to surpass 1 million downloads.
  • "Right Round" by Flo Rida holds the record for the largest debut/overall sales week for a male for a digital song with 636,000 downloads.
  • "Rolling in the Deep" by Adele holds the record for the most digitally downloaded song in a calendar year.
  • "Payphone" by Maroon 5 featuring Wiz Khalifa holds the record for the largest debut/overall sales week for a group for a digital song with 493,000 downloads.
  • "We Are Young" by Fun. featuring Janelle Monáe is the first song to log seven weeks of 300,000 or more in digital sales.
  • "Thrift Shop" by Macklemore and Ryan Lewis featuring Wanz is the first song to log eight and nine weeks of 300,000 or more in digital sales.
  • "Blurred Lines" by Robin Thicke featuring T.I. and Pharrell is the first song to log 10 weeks of 300,000 or more in digital sales and the first song to log four weeks of 400,000 or more in digital sales.
  • "Somebody That I Used to Know" by Gotye featuring Kimbra is the first song to log three weeks of 400,000 or more in digital sales.
  • "Hello" by Adele holds the record for the largest debut/overall sales week for a digital song with 1.112 million downloads and the largest non-debut sales week for a digital song with 635,000 downloads. It is additionally the only song in history to debut with or achieve 1 million downloads sold in a week, and to log two weeks of 600,000 in digital sales. It surpassed the 4 million mark in its thirteenth week, faster than any other song in digital history.
  • "Lean on Me" by Bill Withers is the oldest song to reach number one on the Digital Song Sales chart. The song was released on April 21, 1972, and reached the top, following Withers' death, on the chart dated April 18, 2020.

Album records

Teenage Dream by Katy Perry holds the record for most digital number-ones from an album, with five. "California Gurls" featuring Snoop Dogg, "Teenage Dream," "Firework," "E.T." featuring Kanye West and "Last Friday Night (T.G.I.F.)" all topped the chart.

Artist records

Self-replacement at number one

Simultaneously occupying the top two positions

  1. "Don't Forget About Us"
  2. "All I Want for Christmas Is You"
  • Beyoncé: December 6, 2008
  1. "Single Ladies (Put a Ring on It)"
  2. "If I Were a Boy"
  1. "I Gotta Feeling"
  2. "Boom Boom Pow"
  • Kesha: January 23, 2010
  1. "Tik Tok"
  2. "Blah Blah Blah" '
  • Taylor Swift: September 22, 2012
  1. "We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together"
  2. "Ronan"
  • Iggy Azalea: May 17, 2014 through June 21, 2014
  1. "Problem" '
  2. "Fancy" ' '
  1. "Out of the Woods"
  2. "Shake It Off"
  1. "Purple Rain"
  2. "When Doves Cry"
  1. "Shape of You"
  2. "Castle on the Hill"
  1. "I'm the One" '
  2. "Despacito" '
  • Taylor Swift: September 23, 2017
  1. "...Ready for It?"
  2. "Look What You Made Me Do"
  • Ed Sheeran: January 3, 2018
  1. "Perfect" '
  2. "River" '
  1. "Girls Like You" '
  2. "I Like It" '
  • Lady Gaga: October 20, 2018
  1. "Shallow" '
  2. "I'll Never Love Again"
  • Lady Gaga: October 27, 2018 through November 3, 2018
  1. "Shallow" '
  2. "Always Remember Us This Way"
  • The Weeknd: December 14, 2019
  1. "Heartless"
  2. "Blinding Lights"
  • BTS: March 7, 2020
  1. "On"
  2. "My Time"
  • Kenny Rogers: April 4, 2020
  1. "The Gambler"
  2. "Islands in the Stream" '
  • Bill Withers: April 18, 2020
  1. "Lean on Me"
  2. "Ain't No Sunshine"
  • BTS: October 17, 2020
  1. "Dynamite"
  2. "Savage Love (Laxed – Siren Beat)" '
  • BTS: December 5, 2020
  1. "Life Goes On"
  2. "Blue & Grey"
  • BTS: December 19, 2020
  1. "Life Goes On"
  2. "Dynamite"
  1. "Permission to Dance"
  2. "Butter" '
  • BTS: October 9, 2021
  1. "My Universe" '
  2. "Butter"
  1. "Question...?"
  2. "Bigger Than the Whole Sky"
  • Taylor Swift: June 5, 2023
  1. "Hits Different"
  2. "Karma" '
  1. "Rich Men North of Richmond"
  2. "Aint Gotta Dollar"
  • Oliver Anthony Music: September 2, 2023
  1. "Rich Men North of Richmond"
  2. "I Want To Go Home"
  1. "Texas Hold 'Em"
  2. "16 Carriages"

Most single-week entries in the top 50

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Other achievements